[1][2] However, Kang Sheng (then head of the party's internal intelligence agency of the Central Social Affairs Department) wrote a secret report on Zhao to Mao Zedong afterwards, claiming that Zhao opposed the Central Committee of CCP, Chairman Mao and the Cultural Revolution.

[1][2][9] In August 1967, Mao Zedong as well as the Central Committee of CCP approved that the national and local media may publicly criticize "capitalist roaders" among the top provincial officials in China.

[1][10] At the same time, a massive search and purge of members of the fabricated "Zhao Jianmin KMT Spy Agency in Yunnan" was carried out, resulting in the arrest and persecution of more than 1.38 million civilians and officials.

[1][5][6][7] Tan Furen, a lieutenant general in the People's Liberation Army, was appointed by Mao Zedong and the Central Committee of CCP to take charge of the purge.

[11][12] After the Cultural Revolution, Zhao Jianmin was officially rehabilitated during the "Boluan Fanzheng" period and subsequently became a vice director of the Third Ministry of Machine Building.